US image suffers around the globe under Trump: survey

Almost three-quarters of the world has no confidence in Donald Trump, with support for the U.S. president particularly low in Europe, according to a survey of public opinion in 37 countries released Monday.

The research by the Pew Research Center found that Trump “has had a major impact on how the world sees the United States.” Overall, 74 percent of the 40,000 respondents to the poll expressed no confidence in the president, while only 22 percent expressed confidence in him.

“Trump and many of his key policies are broadly unpopular around the globe, and ratings for the U.S. have declined steeply in many nations,” the center said in the report.

Support for Trump is particularly low in nations that are considered traditional allies of the United States, the survey found: “The sharp decline in how much global publics trust the U.S. president on the world stage is especially pronounced among some of America’s closest allies in Europe and Asia, as well as neighboring Mexico and Canada.”

Confidence in Trump to “do the right thing regarding world affairs” stood at 10 percent in Sweden, 11 percent in Germany, 14 percent in France, 7 percent in Spain and 22 percent in the U.K. for example. In only two countries, Russia and Israel, did Trump receive higher ratings than former U.S. President Barack Obama.

Several factors could account for the figures in Russia and Israel. Favorable rhetoric toward Vladimir Putin and expressed desires to improve U.S.-Russia relations are demonstrated in the poll, with more than half of Russians believing that the relationship between the two countries will improve during Trump’s tenure. Similarly, Trump’s hardline stance on Israel has been bolstered during and after the campaign, as well as with the appointment of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, a family friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The survey found that Trump’s low confidence ratings stem from both his policies and character. Policy decisions such as withdrawing from international trade agreements and the Paris climate change deal have reduced confidence in the new American leader. But most respondents around the globe found Trump “arrogant, intolerant and even dangerous.”

While the American president saw a slight increase in his popularity in Europe compared to 2016, he still remains broadly unpopular. In some instances Trump polled as poorly in Western European nations as former President George W. Bush at the conclusion of his term in 2008. By contrast, a median of 64 percent of respondents expressed confidence in President Obama during the final years of his term, the survey reports.

The survey, which also studied respondents’ views on three other world leaders, found that German Chancellor Angela Merkel enjoys widespread support among foreign publics in much of Europe, Canada and Asia. A median of 60 percent in Europe have confidence in Merkel, and people across the globe expressed more confidence in Merkel than Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Beverly S Hill

Trump has successfully made America WORST.
From a World Power, Trump has degraded the image of America as unwilling
to lead. Yet Trump has spoken derogatorily of most of our ALLIES.
Russia couldn’t be more proud of helping Trump win.

jay Pollan

Trump has denigrated our image by social impropriety, vengeful comments, lying and criticizing our allies.
Russia could not be more proud of helping Trump win.

Posted on 6/27/17 | 4:15 PM CEST

JB

Of course our image suffers. The democrats look like RAVING MANIACS!!!. They are the laughing stock, at home and abroad

Posted on 6/27/17 | 4:24 PM CEST

slg

Trump is the King of Fools, and his supporters are just that!!

Posted on 6/27/17 | 4:32 PM CEST

Lee A Heutel

Trump owns this 100%

Posted on 6/27/17 | 4:48 PM CEST

Michael Iger

Trump has squandered America’s investment in goodwill around the world. This lost and represented the sound decisions and actions of Americans going back to the end of WWII. Even if its not on there balance sheet it will cost them dearly going forward and for future Presidents. The world will be slow to join the U.S. in international agreements and military action. This is going to require much more heavy lifting and sacrifice for Americans in lives and treasure because of Republican’s decision to put an inexperienced politician into the highest office. Trump was to make America great and they are already in a deeper hole with him in spite of his denials that is his stock in trade.

Posted on 6/27/17 | 7:03 PM CEST

Kate Henry

JB
Of course our image suffers. The democrats look like RAVING MANIACS!!!. They are the laughing stock, at home and abroad

Except, of course, this article is about how the world views trump. Try taking a class in reading comprehension. It will help you greatly.

Posted on 6/27/17 | 7:47 PM CEST

Jim Scott

He will wind up being the most unpopular, corrupt President in American History. He also may very well wind up impeached or forced to resign.

someone has to tell Europe that the Marshall plan has been dead for a long time. any of these countries losing American Taxpayer money ?

Posted on 6/27/17 | 8:35 PM CEST

bob

asdf

Posted on 6/27/17 | 8:36 PM CEST

Rick

They hate the idea that someone called them out ! Typical of the left never to force Europe to practice what they preach!

Posted on 6/27/17 | 9:14 PM CEST

Theo

I as an European citizen have always considered the Obama Hype as exaggerated.Just because he was the first black president didn’t make him the best POTUS of all time. That’s a racial prejudice too. Especially in Europe. Far more important in my opinion is that the people of the countries don’t allow to be set against each other as happens now particularly in Europe.Once good relations have deteriorated it takes far more time to win them back than 4 or 8 years of a presidency.

Posted on 6/28/17 | 10:53 AM CEST

Vishnou

No kidding!!! This is a Scoop with capital S…….

Posted on 6/28/17 | 7:07 PM CEST

Vishnou

@Theo; clearly you disapprove of Obama and the colour of his skin. You perhaps enjoyed the Bush asshole more?

Posted on 6/28/17 | 7:09 PM CEST

Theo

Vishnou
No! You missed my point. I meant that Obama had to be a good president just because he was black. Especially in Germany. I said this was a racial prejudice too. Because just he was the first black president didn’t mean he must be the best president. The term racial prejudice can be seen negative and positive. The expectations from the Europeans were very high because he was black
Know what I mean. The racial prejudice here was a black president must be better than a white president. Of cause he is way better than Trump and Bush the second. But even he although he was black had his deficiencies. I hope a made this clear.

Posted on 6/28/17 | 11:43 PM CEST

Karen

And Merkel is good is it? I am terrified of visiting Europe because of all the Muslim rogues she has welcomed. And she is a bully. I support president Trump any time.